President Donald Trump’s recent claim about Russia, China and Pakistan doing nuclear tests raised quite some eyebrows, but Brig Arun Sahgal (Retd) of the Forum for Security Initiatives in Delhi, offered a context.

In a conversation on The Gist , Sahgal pointed out that “All these countries are engaged in very low yield testing, they are trying to look at outputs, force explosion outputs based on the technologies that they are developing. The second area is sub-critical testing.

“We have to understand that before Trump made those remarks, preparations were already ongoing in the United States … (at) Los Alamos that was being prepared for testing. The uranium mines are (also) being upgraded.”

There is a massive upgradation programme which the Americans are involved in but Trump is

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